I would say take it slowly and build up "purity" and a good personality before going to astral(the astral will reflect what your psyche's mood is), I would recommend reading these two books(they are pretty small considering the other books presented online)
~Occult Exercise by Gareth Knight.
~J.H,Brennan, - Experimental Magic.
I would say to focus on the exercises on occult Exercise and the one I am going to present here
~Spiritual exercise of loyola
Bestow the removal of many external and internal influence in your daily life, and they are both conscious and sub-conscious.
~Deaythu-th exercise(outlined in Occult exercise )
The name gives The ability to tune in to the three aspects of perfection necessary to perfect manifestation in the world, namely Equilibrium, Receptivity and Transmission. These .It is easy to align with the three Pillars of Qablaistic teachings
The Name Exercise has other uses. In another form it can be used as a help and protection for others, or
over houses, trains, boats, cars, airplanes, etc. It can be used to resolve differences and disharmonies between friends, relatives, neighbors or others, or for the smooth functioning of committees and conferences. Or in a wider sense it may be used for the help of the
world generally.
~There is a hara line aligning you with your true purpose/True Will/Will in the Book Of Knowledge(you can find it in the /fringe/ MEGA)
~Take up a usual meditation,personal magnetism building, and the usual to be "functional" in the real world
LASTLY I WANTED TO REMAINED about the astral plane (you can read the full post here >>47156 )
you can easily fall in self-deception
'' The Magician may go on for a long time being fooled and flattered by the Astrals that he has himself modified or manufactured. Their natural subservience to himself will please him, poor ape!
They will pretend to show him marvellous mysteries, pageants of beauty and wonder unspeakably splendid; he will incline to accept them as true, for the very reason that they are images of himself idealized by the imagination.
But his real progress will stop dead. These phantasms will prevent him from coming into contact with independent intelligences, from whom alone he can learn anything new.
He will become increasingly interested in himself, imagine himself to be attaining one initiation after another. His Ego will expand unchecked, till he seem to himself to have heaven at his feet. Yet all this will be nothing but his fool's face of Narcissus smirking up from the pool that will drown him.'' ~Crowley,Notes for an Astral Atlas
Also solar grounding and banishing every morning and night
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